The Waldoboro Police report the following activities from the previous weeks:

ComplaintsDec. 20, 2010, Officer Thomas Bartunek is investigating a report from Maritime Energy of criminal mischief done to one of their work vans while in Waldoboro; $300 in damage was done.

Gregory Vrooman, the State Trooper charged with one count of unlawful sexual contact and one count of tampering with a witness, made his initial appearance in Lincoln County Superior Court in Wiscasset on Jan. 27.

The exchange between Newcastle officials and the Newcastle Fire Co. regarding the proposed purchase of a new, $300,000-plus rescue pumper continued this week.

Newcastle Publick House, LLC, the Newcastle Harbor House applicant, did not meet conditions of approval set by the Newcastle Planning Board, rendering the applicant’s permit “moot,” town attorney Peter Drum said.

The nor’easter presently moving through Lincoln County is bringing a more intense snowfall than originally forecast, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). A revised Winter Storm Warning issued by the NWS calls for snowfall rates of 2-3 inches per hour, up from the 1-2 inches originally forecast. Another factor is that the storm path appears to have altered, changing the duration of intense snowfall. The original forecast called for several hours of intense snowfall in the morning hours. Presently the forecast calls for intense snowfall to continue into the early afternoon.

Anna Belknap, a successful actor on the popular CBS television series CSI:NY playing Crime Scene Investigator Detective Lindsay Monroe Messer, is back in her hometown of Damariscotta celebrating the Christmas holiday with her friends, family, and parents Louise and David Belknap.

On Dec. 18, Somerville firefighters discovered the generator they used to power the furnace at their new fire station on Rt. 105 had been stolen.

Cottage Gardens, the Church Street florist, greenhouse and nursery, is open after suffering extensive damage at the hands of a vandal or vandals during the night of Dec. 10-11. The vandal(s) wrote anti-Semitic slurs and damaged electronic equipment, display cases and merchandise.

The Chewonki Foundation has successfully completed Phase Two of the Montsweag Brook Restoration Project. Primary goals of the project are to restore riparian habitat and re-establish fish passage in lower Montsweag Brook in Wiscasset and Woolwich. The project is designed to benefit target fish species including alewives, sea-run brook trout, and American eel.

Robert Blanchard, 62, Bristol, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, $500.

In an emotional and tense meeting at the Edgecomb Eddy School Dec. 15, members of the urgently reconvened Midcoast Bypass Taskforce voted to continue working with the Maine Dept. of Transportation to find a practical plan for a Wiscasset bypass.

A snowmobiler who went through a small patch of ice off Rt. 126 in Whitefield on Dec. 8 may be charged for operating while intoxicated and operating an unregistered snowmobile, according to Warden Steve Allarie with the Warden’s Service.

Dozens of firefighters and fire service officials from around the state joined friends and family to remember Don Bisset, Maine’s first Fire Marshal, at his funeral on Dec. 4 at Waldoboro First Baptist Church.

The Town of Damariscotta has designated the area of the municipal parking lot behind Stars Jewelry (not up against the building, see map) as “short term snow storm parking.”